Bad Timing: Tetuzi Akiyama + Chris Forsyth (pee-ess-eye) + C Joynes
Wednesday 20th October 2010
Venue: The Portland Arms
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Guitar explorations
Price Info: £6 adv/£7 door
Time Info: 8:30-11pm
Perverse and diverse, primitive and reductionist guitar explorations from Japan, USA and UK.
Tetuzi Akiyama/ Chris Forsyth
"An unbeatable guitar duo from this perverse/diverse pairing of a Japanese reductionist and an American valve-driven voyager. Forsyth and Akiyama will also play suitably contrasting solo sets.
Tetuzi Akiyama was performing regularly in Japan in the mid-90s in a range of outfits alongside Taku Sugimoto, Keiji Haino, Toshimaru Nakamura (No-input mixing board) and Takashi Matsuoka. He began to become familiar to Western ears in 1995 when he toured the US in a guitar duo with Sugimoto. Akiyama is a serial collaborator with artists and labels across the globe, and has releases on Digitalis, Bo’Weavil, Monotype and many others, featuring collaborations with such diverse artists as Tom Greenwood, Donald McPherson, Gul3 as well as his own divine solo explorations."
http://www.japanimprov.com/takiyama/profile.html
"Meanwhile, Forsyth has become increasingly well-known for his very out-there work with Peeesseye ("the most remarkable smorgasbord of back porch minimalism, sound poetry and urban decay of recent memory” - Eric Weddle, Family Vineyard) and also his sublime solo work based around his exquisite playing of electric and acoustic guitars. His very limited ‘Dreams’ lp continues to cause ripples of pleasure long after it sold out, beginning with mesmeric acoustic phrase repetition and later building to some kind of delirious electric cataclysm. Forsyth follows it with his forthcoming ‘Paranoid Cat + 3’ lp later this year.
http:/www.thechrisforsyth.com
http://www.evolvingear.com
This duo is their most explorative work yet though. Their October tour will see them perform one solo each and then a duo at each show, and is sure to be a journey through the polarized possibilities of what can be done with a guitar."
C Joynes
(Bo' Weavil, UK)
English acoustic guitarist C Joynes, a resident of Cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions. the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. . (Rhodri Davies)
http://www.myspace.com/cjoynes
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